Arctic Zone

American  

noun

1. the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.

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Example Sentences

“Jane Eyre” opens with the title character reading about “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space” where fields of ice “concentrate the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

Streets were hung with cloth, carpeted with cloth, no end of draperies and cloth; your oppressed imagination feels as if there was cloth enough, of scarlet and other bright colors, to thatch the Arctic Zone.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 by Carlyle, Thomas

Another was that, as we have already seen with colds, instead of being commoner and more frequent in the extreme Northern climate and on the borders of the Arctic Zone, pneumonia is almost unknown there.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

Boothia Peninsula was a barren spot far up in the Arctic Zone on Canada's frozen eastern coast.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen

Arctic Zone: is that part of the boreal region above the limit of tree growth in the U. S. is restricted to the area above timber line on the summits of high mountains: = alpine.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.